> difference is only whether the persons Insurance program pays for it by raising rates on everyone else or your neighbors do through increased borrowing and tax cuts for the wealthy.
Tho i haven't (yet) watched, I can see two things I'd get out of it
1) I've been doing AngularJS for a while so I know the syntax very well, but it'd be useful to see how someone might use it in a more productive manner; i.e. i start with services and tests, maybe someone else writes controllers and dummy views first. If there was another Angular person in my office maybe I'd get some of that at work, otherwise I'm must out in the woods by myself.
2) I've got to pick up Swift fairly quickly; I've signed up for a course on UDemy but knowing how I absorb and retain info it'd be very usefuil for me to see how it's used first, then take the course and get some 'aha, so *that's* why he did that' or 'oh, i see why he didn't do *that*' moments that could augment the course content.
So, what you're saying in effect is that you might put in a large investment on the tool (nailgun=$, framework=$time) from which you're hoping to get a long useful life, and perhaps buying those tools from a reputable company (nailgun=Dewalt,Craftsman, framework=Google,Adobe) with the expectation that the tool won't be discontinued/EOL'd and parts/repo's will remain available. The reality is that the nailgun/shiny IDE might not last as long as the older simpler stuff (hammers are older than neaderthals/VI is >30yrs old, Eclipse is 10, Webstorm is 2? 3?). And company reputation is no guarantor of longevity.
However, if the Dewalt Model XJ-9 nailgun lasts 5yrs you can finish a helluva lot more roofs in that time than you could with a hammer. Perhaps then we should look at Angular, PhoneGap, nodeJS as specific models of nailguns from which we should extract as much 'juice' as we can in the 2-5yrs they might be useful and presume that we'll be using something else after that.
Unfortunately, the roof/nailgun analogy completely falls apart when you realize that if some of the shingles fall off after the XJ-9 has been discontinued you can still use a regular hammer to fix it; whereas if Angular 3 is EOL'd in 2017 then your PhoneGap app built on it might be left with some vulnerability (all geolocation requests are hacked to only report your current location as the nearest strip club) that Google is not going to fix (having sold off their money-losing software biz in 2016 to focus on crowd pacification robots).
And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yosemite super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.
A recent article on bringing back the Saturn V J-1 engine mentions how 3D printing has enabled them to reduce the part count for some components from 5,600 parts to just 40; thus *vastly* simplifying (ie *MORE* simple, not 'now anyone can do it') the building of this engine.
> Droid Razr Maxx HD
I am waiting for this phone to come to Sprint; I replaced my Zio with an EVO with an extended battery but my wife doesn't want to trade her Zio for a phone as thick as mine even with the long battery life I get.
>Removable batteries mean a battery door. This makes the phone thicker.
Bollox. The Sanyo Zio had a batter door that was at best the width of three sheets of paper; and the battery lastest much less than the lifetime of the phone (my wife still uses her somewhat-less-than 3yr old Zio)
That example is like taking a Roomba out of the box and putting batteries in it (i.e 'not building')
Taking frozen peas, a jar of curry sauce, a can of potatoes and a can of garbanzo beans, heating all w/o burning then pouring over a pile of minute rice *is* cooking.
I'm thinking of a more educational use; Curiosity landed on Mars a few months ago and I think it would have been the awesome-est STEM-related outcome had hundreds of thousands of middle-school kids been able to take a break from their standardized test reprogramming, er, studying and instead they got a $200 kit to remotely 'explore' the alien landscape that is the dirt patch behind the school.
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> The last moderates appointed to the Supreme Court were by President Reagan. Um, Reagan nominated Scalia. So, ah, no.
Documentarians, grab your camera so you can watch the same thing happen in FoxCon-town when it moves to Indonesia. Unless China has a plan....
Um, 10% of 100,000 is 10,000, so 160 seems a bit low
Dammit; where are my mod points?
Damn; so glad I never got around to sending them that resume'.
> difference is only whether the persons Insurance program pays for it by raising rates on everyone else or your neighbors do through increased borrowing and tax cuts for the wealthy.
FTFY
When I was a teacher I absolutely LOVED my clickers - quick quizzes after important lessons; instant feedback, it was SO worth the effort.
Tho i haven't (yet) watched, I can see two things I'd get out of it 1) I've been doing AngularJS for a while so I know the syntax very well, but it'd be useful to see how someone might use it in a more productive manner; i.e. i start with services and tests, maybe someone else writes controllers and dummy views first. If there was another Angular person in my office maybe I'd get some of that at work, otherwise I'm must out in the woods by myself. 2) I've got to pick up Swift fairly quickly; I've signed up for a course on UDemy but knowing how I absorb and retain info it'd be very usefuil for me to see how it's used first, then take the course and get some 'aha, so *that's* why he did that' or 'oh, i see why he didn't do *that*' moments that could augment the course content.
So, what you're saying in effect is that you might put in a large investment on the tool (nailgun=$, framework=$time) from which you're hoping to get a long useful life, and perhaps buying those tools from a reputable company (nailgun=Dewalt,Craftsman, framework=Google,Adobe) with the expectation that the tool won't be discontinued/EOL'd and parts/repo's will remain available. The reality is that the nailgun/shiny IDE might not last as long as the older simpler stuff (hammers are older than neaderthals/VI is >30yrs old, Eclipse is 10, Webstorm is 2? 3?). And company reputation is no guarantor of longevity.
However, if the Dewalt Model XJ-9 nailgun lasts 5yrs you can finish a helluva lot more roofs in that time than you could with a hammer. Perhaps then we should look at Angular, PhoneGap, nodeJS as specific models of nailguns from which we should extract as much 'juice' as we can in the 2-5yrs they might be useful and presume that we'll be using something else after that.
Unfortunately, the roof/nailgun analogy completely falls apart when you realize that if some of the shingles fall off after the XJ-9 has been discontinued you can still use a regular hammer to fix it; whereas if Angular 3 is EOL'd in 2017 then your PhoneGap app built on it might be left with some vulnerability (all geolocation requests are hacked to only report your current location as the nearest strip club) that Google is not going to fix (having sold off their money-losing software biz in 2016 to focus on crowd pacification robots).
And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yosemite super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.
> Any game developer will currently be using basically the same toolset as they used in 2000.
Well, 2005 maybe
http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/...
A solution you can pick up for 99 bux at Walmart since 2009 apparently - http://techreport.com/news/16466/marvell-unveils-99-wall-wart-linux-pc
*Can't say that we've seen a tech boom here in Massachusetts*
Mass-a-freakin'chusetts? What, did MIT move to Alabama?
Seriously, are you even conscious?
How do you get unlimited for $115? I can't find anything but $40/pp on their site; for my four household users that's $160/mo.
I'm learning Angular this summer to keep my jQuery at bay.
If everyone has the key, it's not really a lock then, is it?
A recent article on bringing back the Saturn V J-1 engine mentions how 3D printing has enabled them to reduce the part count for some components from 5,600 parts to just 40; thus *vastly* simplifying (ie *MORE* simple, not 'now anyone can do it') the building of this engine.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/3/
TODAY it can be very [not nearly as easy]. Not impossible, but [not nearly as easy as it used to be]
FTFY
> since China was the last big pool of cheap human labor
Guessing there's a lot of Sub-Saharan Africa that would both disagree with you and welcome even the dirtiest of factories
> Droid Razr Maxx HD
I am waiting for this phone to come to Sprint; I replaced my Zio with an EVO with an extended battery but my wife doesn't want to trade her Zio for a phone as thick as mine even with the long battery life I get.
>Removable batteries mean a battery door. This makes the phone thicker.
Bollox. The Sanyo Zio had a batter door that was at best the width of three sheets of paper; and the battery lastest much less than the lifetime of the phone (my wife still uses her somewhat-less-than 3yr old Zio)
> frozen meal
That example is like taking a Roomba out of the box and putting batteries in it (i.e 'not building')
Taking frozen peas, a jar of curry sauce, a can of potatoes and a can of garbanzo beans, heating all w/o burning then pouring over a pile of minute rice *is* cooking.
> No, never ever claim that around EE graduates. We despise things like this being called "building"
Never, ever claim it's 'cooking' unless you graduated a French cooking school!
Never, ever claim you taught something unless you have an education degree.
Never, ever claim you improved cleaned a room unless you've gotten the dust levels down to some ridiculous clean-room PPM.
Never, ever claim its 'programming' unless you're doing it in binary.
Geez, anal much?
I'm thinking of a more educational use; Curiosity landed on Mars a few months ago and I think it would have been the awesome-est STEM-related outcome had hundreds of thousands of middle-school kids been able to take a break from their standardized test reprogramming, er, studying and instead they got a $200 kit to remotely 'explore' the alien landscape that is the dirt patch behind the school.
You could DIY it - http://www.indiegogo.com/pinoccio